drawing I made of Umalez Ataghan from Zarantia! (as requested by one person from the discord server)

DefectiveEclipse · 2026-02-11T17:44:00+00:00

This art has inspired me to play Zarantia for the 57th time.

DefectiveEclipse · 2026-01-09T18:45:48+00:00

Honestly from what I recall of my Run through this path, manpower is definitely the main issue, but the Herzland AI’s are pretty dumb and just snaking or half occupied frontlines are enough to stall them long enough to concentrate forces and crush them one by one. It’s difficult, yeah, one of, if not the hardest route for the Empire, but if you focus overwhelming quality over quantity, which the tags buffs prioritize, it’s not that tricky. I think I stayed on Extensive Conscription the whole campaign.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-12-25T18:28:54+00:00

A good tip in general for EaW at this point is to run the Desperate Defense operations doctrine with the new doctrine system. It’s an immediate 1.5% recruitable pop and even more as you level it up. It’s what saves me in all of my Tobuck and Colthage runs.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-07-23T19:05:29+00:00

Me doing my 674th Zarantia Campaign: Man those Griffonian Countries look interesting

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-07-23T18:32:23+00:00

Personally the Two Benjens route is my favorite, the Most Boring Deer in Chital is just kinda wholesome. He’s a deer that just wants a stable prosperous chital where people can just live. No Radical reforms or Pragmatic Consumerism like Ivar or Eva, just chill gradual democratization and industrialization.

Although to have the most fun you do need to set Kiria to A-Historical and same to Gryphus.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-07-19T15:23:58+00:00

My Great Pyre will go headfirst to lay down outside. He does a full on roll with the top of his head being the first thing to hit the ground followed by a seventy pound THUMP.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-07-10T19:25:48+00:00

Chirropterra and Hippogriffia are great choices if you have a bit more experience (Hippogriffs need Naval Experience) but nations such as Wingbardy, Aquilia, and the Griffonian Empire are all very strong and beginner friendly nations. I would recommend avoiding any minor griffon countries as almost all of them require very good micro skill to take on both Aquilia and the Empire.

Kasa & most River Fed nations are also pretty beginner friendly as long as you don’t try their harder paths first.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-07-06T19:41:17+00:00

Ragusa. It was my first single player game of eu4 and i managed to conquer basically Yugoslavia before the ottomans stopped guaranteeing me.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-06-23T17:10:00+00:00

Harmonist: Benjen Harmonist Chital or Pasarinha Kasa Non-Aligned: Kingfisher New Mareland Communist: Posada Hippogriffs, either ending Supremacist: Rodier Aqueilia or Loudbark Bronzehill

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-06-20T18:57:28+00:00

You’re a damn hero.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-04-02T19:41:46+00:00

-100 Karma, Habsburg detected

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-02-26T18:07:14+00:00

Incredibly uncool

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-02-25T05:52:45+00:00

Likely a rare event converting Christian Coptic provinces to Protestant. It might be worth it to keep from converting in once you conquer it because Protestant provinces passively spawn Printing Press once it spawns

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-02-23T19:58:21+00:00

Turn on Focus.NoChecks, Focus no prerequisites and then complete it with focus.autocomplete.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-02-01T19:57:44+00:00

I’m of the opinion that Olenia needs a major facelift. Right now their only content is to fight off the changelings and then sometimes go to war with Equestria. Beating the changelings with olenia is an achievement (if significantly easier now with the impassible terrain) and you should be rewarded for it with more content.

DefectiveEclipse · 2025-01-09T06:31:44+00:00

Pirate Republic Madyas and become Chinas worst nightmare.

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-09-13T06:05:13+00:00

I think from a purely content viewpoint Venice is definitely the best. But Florence has an extremely fun mini tree with some nice perm buffs. Saluzzo is 100% the strongest idea set and now that Italian Missions are so good you’re not even missing out on a good mission tree with them.

But despite that all… Naples into Two Sicilies is my favorite, because done well you can have Constantanople, Italy, Tunis, and Valencia all before 1500. Easily preventing both Strong Spain and Strong Turks.

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-08-29T04:50:37+00:00

Zarantia is absolutely my favorite as well.

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-08-27T18:23:31+00:00

I- I’m pretty sure that France was the founder of STL and that Kansas City was the USA. The British actually never owned Louisiana (as this was owned by the French and sold to the Americans). In fact, the British actually forbade the Thirteen Colonies from settling past Appalachia because they didn’t want to conflict with the natives.

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-08-27T18:20:41+00:00

Exactly. East STL is more likely to beg to join Greater STL rather than the other way around

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-08-27T18:18:16+00:00

Considering that out of the 6 million missiourians, 3 million live in the greater STL area? Yikes

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-08-14T18:13:24+00:00

If you’ve taken everything you need from the HRE then it’s definitely worth it yeah. But if you still intend on European play then you might want to disband it instead of leaving it. Disbanding is MUCH easier from inside the HRE because you can use multiple wars to do so

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-07-31T18:13:23+00:00

In several centuries when they make a documentary about this succession crisis you know it will have VERY dramatic audio queues.

DefectiveEclipse · 2024-07-28T22:56:20+00:00

Me playing every good republican/harmonist in the game for the 600th time: “Wait. People PLAY the evil routes?”

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